Senahid Halilović (22 March 1958 – 24 April 2023) was a Bosnian linguist and academician who was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
[1] Halilović studied at the University of Belgrade where he acquired his PhD in Dialectology, exploring the East-Bosnian dialect.
[1] Born in Kladanj on 22 March 1958, Halilović is best known for his contribution to the standardisation of the Bosnian language.
Characteristics of this spelling is equidistance towards the Croatian and Serbian spelling and morphological prescriptions, and expressions that are held for the typical Bosnian norm (formalisation of the phoneme "h" in certain words in the Bosnian language as seen in the words mehko, lahko, kahva, mahrama).
Halilović was signatory of the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.